A younger Khalid. https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/5fzff0/leila_khaled_discussing_a_meeting_with_western/
>From My People Shall Live, the Autobiography of a Revolutionary : > > > > 'The training schedule was exacting, but occasionally left us time for a > little fun. We were 'entertaining' a group of foreign students and trying > to lead a Bedouin kind of life in order to politicize our Bedouin > population. The students had been attending an international solidarity > meeting in Amman held under the auspices of the General union of > Palestinian Students. Most were graduates of the 1968 university upheavals > in the West. We found it very amusing that they honestly believed they > were making a 'revolution' if they undressed in public, seized a > university building, or shouted an obscenity at bureaucrats. I was > initially opposed and refused to talk to them, even though some believed > in violent revolution, because I didn’t want to be another experimental > 'guinea-pig' to Westerners. > > > > > > I finally relented and I am glad I did. I hadn’t met Western > 'revolutionaries' before. It turned out they represented an unfamiliar > cultural rather than a political phenomenon. Some seemed to have read the > history political literature of the left, but most regarded the > Marxist-Leninist leaders disdainfully, with the exception of the 'Young > Marx,' who held some sort of fascination for revolution. Some Americans > were quite serious and believed in the historic mission of the working > class and were making plants to integrate themselves with the masses. > > > > > > What astonished us most about this group was that they were opposed to > nationalism, a doctrine we hold dearly as a colonized and dissipated > people. Some believed in violence for 'the hell of it' and in students as > revolutionary agents of history. But the majority were inclined towards > guerrilla theatre as a means of 'making revolution.' They performed a > little for us. > > > > > > As they were departing I was rather struck by a French anarchist student > who proclaimed 'Let chaos reign' and by a German who echoed the same > sentiment. I exclaimed that the Palestinian people were an example of a > society in chaos without authority and leadership, which as a result, was > left at the mercy of the Zionist oppressor. I asked them what could they > prescribe for us in order to overcome our kind of alienation'--beards, > long hair, and toy guns? They merely paused, they smiled, they reflected, > they inhaled and passed their joints on in universal wonder." > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29184): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29184 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104610763/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
